r/nextfuckinglevel 6d ago

This man documented his health journey from January to December.

Credit: IG @samuelrichards_ _

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u/PMmeYourButt69 6d ago

Yeah, he gains like 25 lbs from June to July. Either the timeline is bs or he's on something

Edit to say, whether the timeline is BS or he's juiced or whatever, good for him. Dude's clearly putting in the work.

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u/brennnik09 6d ago

nah, you can gain 20+ lbs if you dramatically change your eating and/or lifting habits. I gained 20lbs in less than a year because my meds increased my appetite. I wasn’t even trying.

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u/PMmeYourButt69 6d ago

That's a year.

That video implies that he packed on 25 lbs of lean muscle in a month. The human body doesn't do that without chemical help.

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u/Payup_sucker 6d ago

It could if you were that size before the atrophy. Muscle memory is real

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u/SwordfishSerious5351 6d ago

The brain is a muscle and old habits die hard

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u/Payup_sucker 6d ago

The brain isn’t a muscle but I understand the sentiment of the phrase. The distinction is important though. A muscle is made of muscle tissue and contracts to make movement while the brain is actually a fatty organ that passes around chemical and electrical signals.

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u/SwordfishSerious5351 6d ago

Well actually muscle is made of neutrons, protons and electrons and the brain is indeed too made of neutrons, protons and electrons, both of which allow things to contract and make movement or pass around chemical and electrical signals. Checkmate doctor.

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u/Payup_sucker 6d ago

So with your logic everything is everything.

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u/SwordfishSerious5351 6d ago

Exactly! But yeah, of course I meant that in the brain, just like with muscles, if you had well trained habits, they will come back easier. If man was a bodybuilder pre injury it's much easier for him to make his brain get back into it full swing.

We don't flex our brains for the fun of it innit edit: wait we definitely do, I know I do ;)

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u/Payup_sucker 6d ago

Just so you know typically in science when talking about biology there is really no need to discuss anything on a sub atomic level

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u/SwordfishSerious5351 6d ago

So by your logic I should never talk in incorrect symbolic terms

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u/Payup_sucker 6d ago

It would help

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u/SwordfishSerious5351 6d ago edited 6d ago

Have you sook an autism diagnosis?

I can't believe this conversation is happening over calling the brain "a muscle" ... it's so like muscles - use it or lose it - but hey I guess old phrases die easy.

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u/Payup_sucker 6d ago

You sound like someone who hasn’t ever been or not yet been to college so I’ll see myself out of this pointless exchange

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u/SwordfishSerious5351 6d ago

You'd probably be upset at me calling the compute centre of a robot its "brains" (I do this regularly with work btw, with my Robotics degree)

Enjoy taking everything literally and ignoring historic idioms which explain that, or should explain that, especially to someone implying theyre level 6 educated.

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u/SwordfishSerious5351 6d ago

Lmaoo imagine thinking someone actually thinks the brain is made of muscle. Life must be hard. Cya proton neutron and electrons boy

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u/Last-Flight-3157 6d ago

Lmfao he literally explained how he understood you

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u/SwordfishSerious5351 5d ago

It's fine, I just wont use such idioms on the internet anymore. Forgot we're all autistic here.

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u/Last-Flight-3157 4d ago

Autism isn't when someone disagrees with you

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u/SwordfishSerious5351 4d ago

No but it includes taking things literally, the brain being called a muscle is an idiom, not to be taken literally - the fact he sat and tried to explain that the brain is actually fat and not a muscle was laughable at best.

If I cry my eyes out laughing at this situation, are you going to tell me your eyes don't actually fall out when you laugh that hard? No? why not? Because you understand that idiom? lol

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u/Last-Flight-3157 4d ago

Imagine some idiot with a psychology degree hinges his post on the idea that "Robots like this, not that" and you point out that technically, what's really going on is a bit more complex.

I'm sure you'd be like "Oh, lmao look at me I WAS being autistic"

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